kidney disease
urinary system disease that is located in the kidney
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Summary
kidney disease is a health problem[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of health problem entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,031 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: class of disease[3]
- Subclass of: urinary system disease[4], organ-specific disease[5]
- Commons category: Kidney diseases[6]
- Topic's main category: Category:Kidney diseases[7], Q106844010[8]
- Anatomical location: kidney[9]
- Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10]
- ICD-9-CM: 583.81[11]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C34843[12], C3149[13]
- Different from: peripheral neuropathy[14]
- Health specialty: nephrology[15], urology[16]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: dopamine[17], paricalcitol[18]
- Genetic association: SLC13A3[19], UMOD[20], TFDP2[21], PRKAG2[22], ATXN2[23], DACH1[24], CPS1[25], SLC22A2[26], WDR37[27], WDR72[28], SHROOM3[29], PVT1[30], PKD1[31]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_557[32], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:557[33], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000077[34], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000112[35]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[36]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Medicine[37], Nephrology task force[38]
Why It Matters
kidney disease has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]